In 1873, it took Phileas Fogg and his valet Passepartout eighty days to get around the world, mostly by slow trains and steamships. 150 years later, that trip can take eight months\ when you do it by EV. One of the drawbacks when you have to stop every 60 miles to wait for yo r car to recharge.

Antonin Guy and Xavier Degon left Strasbourg, France on Feb. 11, writes Hybridcars. Their goal: To round the globe in a re-badged Mitsubishi i-MiEV, now called Citroën C-Zéro. On September 24, they were back in Strasbourg,

Their trip led them through 17 countries and they covered 16,383 miles. To do so, they had to stop and charge their ride close to 300 times.

While some charging points were anticipated in advance, the crew’s biggest challenge has often been to convince the encountered inhabitants to lend them their outlets.

Well, at least they had airconditioning. Say what you want about the iMIEV… it’s overpriced, undersized and feels rather cheap inside… but man can that AC howl when there’s this little cabin to cool off.

The events of Jules Verne’s ‘Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours’ were set in 1872 not 1873. The book was published in 1873 which is perhaps where your error arose.

Secondly, Phileas Fogg did the journey in under 80 days (otherwise he wouldn’t have won the bet) – actually it would have been under 79 days had Fogg gone straight to the Reform club instead of moping around his Savile Row home for a day thinking he’d lost the bet.